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as·sim·i·late

/əˈsiməˌlāt/

verb verb: assimilate, 3rd person present: assimilates, gerund or present participle: assimilating, past tense: assimilated, past participle: assimilated

• 1. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully: "Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
• ▪ absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture: "pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed"synonyms: subsume, incorporate, integrate, absorb, engulf, ... moreacculturate, co-opt, adopt, embrace, admit
• ▪ (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients): "the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body"synonyms: absorb, take in, acquire, soak up, pick up, ... moregrasp, comprehend, understand, learn, master, digest, ingest
• 2. cause (something) to resemble; liken: "philosophers had assimilated thought to perception"
• ▪ come to resemble: "the churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm"
• ▪ make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word.

Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin assimilat- ‘absorbed, incorporated,’ from the verb assimilare, from ad- ‘to’ + similis ‘like.’